 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 650 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
 | George Washington - 1837 - 644 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 654 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 658 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 666 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...shoals. At one place the ice had lodged, and made the river impassable, and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." On reaching Venango, the horses were in so miserable a condition, that, to lighten their burden, Major... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - 1843 - 328 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over.' In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; we were therefore obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over." They reached Venango on the 22d, which was distant from the fort, by the winding of the stream, about... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1852 - 374 pages
...with difficulty in six days, they being at one time obliged to avoid the packed ice, by carrying the i heavy canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile...similar manner. On the south-east fork of Beaver Creek, the travellers met with an Indian, who called Gist by his name, and who on being asked the nearest... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855 - 638 pages
...At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water; and we were obliged to carry our canoe across a neck of land a quarter of a mile over," In six days they landed at Venango, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles by the winding of the... | |
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Many times," says Major Washington in his journal, " all hands were obliged to get out, and remain in the water half an hour or more in getting over the shoals. At one place the ice had lodged, and made it impassable by water ; and we were obliged to... 
